Andrew Norton

Andrew Norton is the higher education program director at the Grattan Institute. His most recent reports are The online evolution: when technology meets tradition in higher education (April 2013), Taking university teaching seriously (July 2013), and Keep the caps off! Student access and choice in higher education (August 2013). He is a frequent media commentator on higher education issues.Before joining Grattan, he spent 11 years with concurrent jobs as a policy adviser to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne and as a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies. In the late 1990s, he was higher education adviser to the then federal education minister, Dr David Kemp.

Splitting the higher education bill is the right strategy, but it needs to be done differently. Given fee deregulation is doomed in the Senate it should be delayed and separated from plans to extend tuition subsidies.